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Karaoke comes for Japanese words which translates to empty music i.e. no vocals. So, you need to fill the vocals while the music plays on. Sometime back the only way to play Karaoke music was by buying an expensive machine but this is not the case anymore. If you don’t yet have a karaoke machine then you should read some karaoke system reviews at Homeguyd and find which one suits you best.

You can now host your own Karaoke party without the need for a karaoke machine, just set it up with your laptop and you are all good to go!

Wondering how you can do that? Just follow these steps and your Karaoke system will be connected to a laptop in no time at all!

Step 1

Although your laptop has a built-in microphone, make sure that you get an external microphone to sing. This will add more feel to the Karaoke session and you won’t need to lean close to your laptop to sing. You can just hold the microphone in your hand and sway to the beats while feeling the music in your body.

Step 2

Once you have an external microphone with you, connect your laptop to the said microphone or to a stereo system. Make sure that you buy a good quality speaker set if you want to truly enjoy the Karaoke party. Your laptop will have a built-in speaker with 2 watts but it is nothing compared to a 10-watt or 20-watt powerful speaker so if you want a strong performance, better invest in a quality speaker set.

You can easily buy a 20-watt Bluetooth speaker and then use it for a Karaoke party. With such a speaker, you can have a party outdoors too since a Bluetooth speaker is easily portable and can run for 12 hours on a single charge.

Step 3

The next step is to download a Karaoke app which is compatible with your laptop’s operating system and specifications. You will find plenty of apps for Windows 8 laptops. One of the most popular apps used for Karaoke is the Red Karaoke app which can run on most laptops including ARM processors too and has a library of 45000 songs. You just need to download the app, for free, and then run it on your laptop.

Step 4

Make sure that you subscribe to a Karaoke app so that you will have a huge song library to choose the songs from. Red Karaoke allows you to sign up for your Facebook account and allows you both free subscription and paid subscription offers.

Step 5

Now choose any song that you would like to play and then give access to your microphone and webcam. You can also just give access to the microphone if you don’t want your video to be uploaded to the Red Karaoke account.

Step 6

Now start the music and watch for the cue when the music starts playing. When the lyrics get highlighted in red, start singing those words. Trust me, you will definitely enjoy such a fun-packed performed at your own home.

No sooner have we recovered from the really rather fun stint at the Macbeth last weekend (belatedly in my sore ribbed case) than we turn our attention to this Friday where Slutty Fringe is taking over The Old Queens Head for the very first time in our booze sodden DJ career.

To celebrate we’ve sweet talked one of this country’s finest into joining us: the DJ, producer, label impresario and all round Essex advocate known simply as Matt Walsh.

Propelled to a glistening DJing and production career off the back of impressing some dude called Tiga at the T Bar (RIP) back in 2007, the Turbo & Clouded Vision artist will be playing a rare and special 2 hour set of finely sculpted disco sounds for us, despite the fact we started the whole techno pat swayze thing a few years back….

Sorry Matt.

We are super happy to secure a Bugged Out regular and international jetsetter type to play some disco records upstairs in a tarted up boozer on the Essex Road and we also have asked our friends from Fragment to play too. It’s only fair really after we bullied our way into a headline slot at their New Years Eve party at the Horse & Groom, which we think was a great night, it’s all a bit of a blur really…

People of Manchester this Easter weekend the much fancied Warehouse Project returns with 4 nights of electronic music mayhem, including one very special night celebrating 20 years of Carl Craig’s legendary Planet-E label.

Now I don’t know about you but here at Slutty Fringe when we think of the beautiful elegiac sounds of Detroit Techno, the closest mankind has ever come to recreating the music of the seraphim through crappy synthesizers we think cider, and not just any cider, but Kopparberg, truly the Underground Resistance of apple based alcoholic beverages.

Cementing this relationship, Sweden’s original, premium fruit cider are sponsoring this Easters series of parties and have given us a pair of tickets for this Saturday’s Planet-E bash, but seeing as like the Ravens of the Tower bad things were to happen if we left London we’ve decided to give away our tickets to one lucky reader.

So if you’d like to enjoy the cold, crisp, refreshing sound of Carl Craig, Laurent Garnier, Space DImension Controller, Tiger & Woods and more then answer the question below and we’ll pick one random winner tomorrow (Wednesday 20th) at midday.

Q) The Kopparberg Brewery was founded in 1945 by a small group of brewers. Detroit Techno was started in the early 80′s by a small group of producers, but by what name is this trio colloquially known as?

For the past couple of month’s Slutty Fringe’s south London axis has been living high on the hog with the arrival in the culinary wasteland that is New Cross of the #Meateasy above the boarded up Goldsmiths Tavern.

A pop-up burger bar is one way of describing it but having worked our way through the menu several times over we’d rather call it a small piece of paradise here on earth.

Sadly all good things come to an end and the Meateasy closes on April 16th so if you’ve yet to try the best burgers that you’ll ever taste you’re running out of time, and should that inexplicably not be reason enough to venture South of the river then this Saturday our friends from Radioolio are staging an afterhours takeover.

From 9pm they’ll be providing a late night soundtrack of 50s juke joints and once the burgerettes have finished feeding the famished and cleared away the tables the music and dancing will go on till the last man (or woman) is standing.

Be warned though it’s chaotic, insanely busy, cramped and you’ll probably spill burger juice all down yourself but hey that’s all part of the fun so roll up, get a ticket, order one (or three) of their amazing cocktails and soak up the atmosphere of a restaurant quite unlike any other you’ll have been to recently.

To get you in the mood why not check out the mixtape Radioolio did for us last year.

Entitled Neon Nights, Volume 4 of the lush Future Disco series out on Needwant next week sees iconic tracks from The Revenge and Soul Clap to 2020 Soundsystem and The C90s. Mixed by Sean disco Brosnan, wonders like Jacques Renault’s 2010-changing remix of Midnight Magic are sat beside the Classixx ultra-Balearic remix of Holy Ghost. In anticipation we speak to Mr Brosnan about his future disco dreams and how he keeps getting confused for a relation to James Bond.

You have the same name as Pierce Brosnan’s son which makes it very difficult to google you. Have you found this to be a recurring issue in life?

Just yesterday I went to a meeting and I was asked if I was related and that I even look like him, which was a very nice compliment, but it was an A&R guy, I think he was still drunk from the night before. But I have had national newspapers ring me up and ask how the party was at the weekend. I thought it was a bit strange that the Daily Mail was suddenly interested in how my gig went at a pub in east London.

Having run Future Disco for a few issues now, do you think you’ll ever move on to a Future Dubstep or Future Dutch House comp?

Well I did Future Balearica last year which was the first step I guess in world future genre domination. I was really happy with that album and lots of people tell me they love it too which is great, but I think that’s as far as it goes. I often get reminded by people that in fact the records aren’t from the future. Which is very true of course, I’m still trying to figure that one out.

Where does your affinity for disco stem from?

I’m really not sure because my parents weren’t particularly into disco, my dad was really into 60s soul, but mainly our house was filled with big pop 12″ LPs from the 80s, the kind you now see at car boot sales for 50p. I think it’s because I had an early love for house music when I was a teenager. House and deep house in particular in the 90s was made up of mainly disco samples. Then I discovered the originals and was like ‘wow’, these records are amazing. I love that about dance music that it’s always grabbing bits from all over and somehow constantly creating something fresh and exciting.

If you were to invite a round table discussion on disco, who would be your ideal attendees?

I think better to move the table to the side of the room, get the disco ball out, turn out the lights and turn up the music. Invite, dead or alive; Harvey, Larry Levan, David Mancuso and Ron Hardy to play records. I think the music is much better at explaining it all and a whole lot more fun too.

So it’s another 4 day weekend here in the UK which means plenty of opportunities to party hard, recover and do it all again. Anyway here’s where you’ll find me this weekend should you, for some inexplicable reason, want to stand near me.

This Friday Modular’s Bag Raiders make their live UK debut at XOYO, this follows the release of their wonderful debut self titled album. Debut’s all round then.

It’s a great looking party as the Australian duo will be joined by Slutty Fringe faves In Flagranti, Stopmakingme, Riton and loads more (including my colleague Em who has smuggled himself onto the bill), get in, as they say.

We posted it a while ago but hey it fits so here’s the Stop making me refix of Bag Raiders last single Sunlight…

Having sweated the booze out of my system i’ll then be packing up some vinyl and heading North on Sunday to Islington and The Old Queen’s Head, where I’ll be drunkenly fumbling at the controls (7-8) alongside the likes of Riva Starr, Psychemagick, Stripes and fellow blog types Pelski.

Magic. It starts at 3 and goes on till 3, last man standing wins a prize*, probably a new liver or something i hope.

Those of you who haven’t sand blasted your memories into oblivion subsisting on a diet of veterinary drugs the past few years may remember that for a while (well over 3 years) Tony and I were residents at Be’s Saturday night party at Proud.

Well after a short hiatus Be’s back (seeing as it’s Easter Sunday you could even say risen) only now they’ve moved up the road to the palatial confines of Koko.

Kicking things off they’ve pulled together an all-star lineup featuring US! and some others such as Friendly Fires (DJ Set), Man Like Me, Drums of Death, Stop making me and loads more, see the flyer above for the full line-up.

In the meantime here’s a brand new remix of Cocknbull Kid’s new single from one of our favourite producers, the aforementioned Stop making me whose own EP is out now on Bang Gang and well worth buying.

UPDATE! So basically I rather stupidly forgot to mention that we have a discount code that gets you cheap tickets for this party, just enter “beat slut” when buying from here and they’ll be just £8.